The Baal Shem Tov, founder of modern Hassidim in the eighteenth century once described the Jewish people as being a living Sefer Torah. Every Jew is a letter in the Torah, every family a word, every community a sentence and the Jewish people at any one time are a paragraph. Indeed the Jewish people through the history of time constitute a story, and that story is continued with us today.
Think of it this way, the modern world has the almost entirely excepted opinion that life is an open book for you. Imagine if you will, you are in a library and there are countless books each one describing a way of life. The modern world says that it is ok to pick which ever you want, and if you dont like it discard it and move to another as if the previous never really mattered. Now imagine that in that library you open a book and it tells the tale of Judaism through the ages, the names of every generation of Jews and theyre stories, of oppression, affliction, trial and tribulation, happiness, saddness and holyness. Eventually after reading for a while you get to the last page, it is empty, all except for the title. The Title is your name.
This is what happens when you are called to the Jewish people and faith, you become the next chapter of the Jewish story, and this is OUR story. How will you write that next chapter in the story, will you tell your children and have them walk in the Torah, so that there is a chapter following, or will you discard the things which we have always known for another book, another story, only to find that even then these actions have an effect on the Jewish story anyway.
Current figures show that at the very least 1 in every 2 children are leaving Judaism, marrying gentiles and raising non-jewish children. This comes as a result of a loss of reason as to why we would be Jewish, what it really means to be a part of the story that HaShem has ordained for us to write for him. Moses gave the remedy, and that remedy has been the reason our story continuing for so long, while all the others, powerfull though they may be, have died out. The Torah, and the promises of G-d contained therein, it binds us as a people, but so too binds us to G-d, a fate which Ezekial describes as being impossible to avoid.
Lets together continue to write the story that our people have wrote and will continue to write, that of One HaShem, One Torah, One People, One Moshiach and love for all.
Shalom and G-d bless
~Hix~
Think of it this way, the modern world has the almost entirely excepted opinion that life is an open book for you. Imagine if you will, you are in a library and there are countless books each one describing a way of life. The modern world says that it is ok to pick which ever you want, and if you dont like it discard it and move to another as if the previous never really mattered. Now imagine that in that library you open a book and it tells the tale of Judaism through the ages, the names of every generation of Jews and theyre stories, of oppression, affliction, trial and tribulation, happiness, saddness and holyness. Eventually after reading for a while you get to the last page, it is empty, all except for the title. The Title is your name.
This is what happens when you are called to the Jewish people and faith, you become the next chapter of the Jewish story, and this is OUR story. How will you write that next chapter in the story, will you tell your children and have them walk in the Torah, so that there is a chapter following, or will you discard the things which we have always known for another book, another story, only to find that even then these actions have an effect on the Jewish story anyway.
Current figures show that at the very least 1 in every 2 children are leaving Judaism, marrying gentiles and raising non-jewish children. This comes as a result of a loss of reason as to why we would be Jewish, what it really means to be a part of the story that HaShem has ordained for us to write for him. Moses gave the remedy, and that remedy has been the reason our story continuing for so long, while all the others, powerfull though they may be, have died out. The Torah, and the promises of G-d contained therein, it binds us as a people, but so too binds us to G-d, a fate which Ezekial describes as being impossible to avoid.
Lets together continue to write the story that our people have wrote and will continue to write, that of One HaShem, One Torah, One People, One Moshiach and love for all.
Shalom and G-d bless
~Hix~
